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Anna-Maja Nylén

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Anna-Maja Nylén
Born24 March 1912 Edit this on Wikidata
Dalby parish Edit this on Wikidata
Died27 February 1976 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 63)
Lidingö Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationEthnologist Edit this on Wikidata

Anna-Maja Nylén (March 24, 1912 – February 27, 1976) was a Swedish[1] ethnologist.[2]

Birth and family

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Nylén was born on March 24, 1912, in Dalby parish in northern Värmland. Her parents were Johanna Theresia Nylén (birth name Hägglund), and Jakob Theodor Nylén. She had a sister, Karin Laura Nylén, and two brothers, Jan Klas Nylén and Matts Otto Nylén.[2] She never married.[3]

Career

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Nylén worked at the Nordic Museum[4] beginning in the late 1930s. She was the first academically qualified female employee there. In 1947, she became the first woman at the Nordic Museum to receive a doctorate in folklife research, which she received from the Institute for Folklife Research.[5] In 1961, she became the head of the Nordic Museum's Etnologiska undersökningen (ethnological investigation section). In 1965, she became head of a recently created costumes and textiles section at the Nordic Museum. She worked in that section until she retired from the museum in 1975.[2]

She also did work outside of the museum. In 1957, she became docent in ethnology at Uppsala University. In 1963, she became an instructor at Friends of Handicraft’s weaving school. Later, in 1969, her book Svensk hemslojd (in English Swedish Handcraft) was published; as of the year 2000, it was a standard work on pre-industrial craft.[6][2]

In 1973, she became the first professionally-engaged woman elected to The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture.[2]

Death

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Nylén died in Lidingö on February 27, 1976.[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Libris katalogisering". Libris katalogisering.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Anna-Maja Nylén", https://skbl.se/en/article/AnnaMajaNylen, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (SKBL) [Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women] (article by Sofia Danielsson, translated by Alexia Grosjean), retrieved 2023-08-31.
  3. ^ ""Anna-Maja Nylén"". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (Dictionary of Swedish National Biography).
  4. ^ Medelius, Nyström, Stavenow-Hidemark (1998). Nordiska museet under 125 år. sid. 387. Libris 8370346. Läst 8 mars 2016
  5. ^ Klein, Barbro (March 22, 2013). "Women and the formation of Swedish folklife research". Journal of American Folklore. 126 (500): 120–152 – via go.gale.com.
  6. ^ Klein, Barbro. (2000). "The Moral Content of Tradition: Homecraft, Ethnology, and Swedish Life in the Twentieth Century". Western Folklore, 59(2), 171–195. https://doi.org/10.2307/1500158